MySQL Shell 8.0.21 comes with two utilities which can be used to perform logical dumps of all the schemas from an instance (util.dumpInstance()) or selected schemas (util.dumpSchemas()). These tools offer major performance improvements over the mysqldump utility, some of our benchmarks show a throughput up to 3GB/s!…

MySQL Shell 8.0.12 introduces a new feature which allows users to store and automatically retrieve their MySQL account credentials. This enables them to seamlessly work with various servers without explicitly providing the password for each new connection and create secure unattended scripts which do not need to include plain text passwords.…